The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe - ISBN: 9780241967744
Paperback
Sleep, dreams, and obsession intertwine, drawing past housemates back together.

The House of Sleep

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    27 August 2014

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Summary

‘Probably the best English novelist of his generation’ Nick Hornby

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated.

A group of students sharing a house. The…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241967744
ISBN-10:0241967740
Author:Jonathan Coe
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:27 August 2014
Weight:246g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

Splendidly disturbing – Anita Brookner

About The Author

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

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